BOOKS with Alphabet O (Oa, Ob,Oc, Od, Oe…)

Overview: Competing concepts of EUROPE in political and public discourses.How is EUROPE conceptualised?.Construction of European identity.?Europe. is the name for a scintillating variety of historically emerged concepts, constantly developed and discussed over time. Its complexity and fuzziness is reflected in a multitude of myths, topoi, symbols and boundaries, which all constitute shared knowledge of the concept of EUROPE and which continue to influence attempts to (de- and re-)construct European identity. The case studies collected in this volume investigate the competing concepts of Europe

Overview: Ein zentrales Charakteristikum industrieller Verhandlungen ist, dass diese im Team und nicht von Einzelpersonen geführt werden. Von zentraler Bedeutung ist hierbei die Frage, in welcher hierarchischen Teamzusammensetzung ein Verhandlungsteam das optimale Ergebnis erzielt. Sina Barisch untersucht im Rahmen einer umfassenden Befragung unter Verhandlungspraktikern die Wirkungsbeziehungen zwischen der hierarchischen Teamzusammensetzung und dem Verhandlungsergebnis. Sie stellt ein Entscheidungsmodell vor, das Verhandlungspraktikern bei der hierarchischen Besetzung von Verhandlungsteams al

Overview: During the past fifteen years commercial interest in compounds containing carbon- fluorine bonds has burgeoned beyond all expectations, mainly owing to business opportunities arising from work on biologically active fluoroorganics-particularly agrochemicals, the relentless search for new markets for fluoropolymers and fluoro- carbon fluids, developments in the field of medical diagnostics, and the drive to find replacements for ozone-depleting CFCs and Halon fire-extinguishing agents. Judging the situation to warrant the publication of a comprehensive collection of up-to-date reviews

Overview: The intensive study of molecular events leading to cellular transformation in tissue culture or in intact organisms culminated in the identification of 100 or more genes that can be defined as oncogenes or tumor suppressor genes. Functionally, these genes can be divided into several classes, each involved in a different step in transmission of signals from the exterior of the cell to the nucleus. The first oncogenes to be biochemically character- ized included membrane receptors for growth factors, growth factors themselves, protein kinases or small GTP binding proteins involved in s

Overview: Includes supplementary material: This volume contains the proceedings of the 200 I International Conference on Operations Research (OR 2(01) held at the Gerhard-Mercator-University Duisburg, September 3-5,2001. OR 200 1 was organized under the auspices of the German Society of Operations Research, Gesellschaft für Operations Research (GOR e. V.). The conference and the annual general meeting were attended by 360 participants from 20 countries. The presentation of 220 papers was organized in 15 sections. According to Duisburg as hosting city for this event OR 200 1 emphasized on contr

Overview: Stimulating new waysof thinking in ocean governance.Providing excellent examples of ocean governance both in theory and practice.Examining state practice at regional and global scale.Includes supplemeOcean—a source of life, has been overused and heavily polluted. While the traditional approaches might not be able to solve the complexity of the ocean governance issues, there is a need to adopt a new way of thinking in order to deal with the current problems. This book emphasises the importance of law and policy while generating ocean governance initiatives. “Good Ocean Governance” as

Overview: Amelie Winters investigates omni-channel strategies in retail and provides new insights and important implications for researchers and managers based on theoretical considerations and empirical analyses. She shows that retailer should focus on the interdependencies between major purchase channels and emphasizes the need to identify supportive stimuli and cues, such as integration services and online- and omni-channel-specific marketing instruments, to support such transfers and improve behavioral outcomes at the retailer and channel level..978-3-658-34706-2978-3-658-34707-9Series ISS

Overview: In this book, Susanne Lundin explores the murky world of organ trade. She tracks exploited farm workers in Moldova, prosecutors in Israel and surgeons in the Philippines. Utilizing unique source material she depicts a rapidly growing organ market characterized by both advanced medical technology and human trafficking.978-1-137-53985-4

Overview: Presentation of modern methods to solve real and pressing industrial optimization problems in a practical way together with real-life examples.With examples usually hard to come by or not published atIndustrial optimization lies on the crossroads between mathematics, computer science, engineering and management. This book presents these fields in interdependence as a conversation between theoretical aspects of mathematics and computer science and the mathematical field of optimization theory at a practical level. The 19 case studies that were conducted by the author in real enterpris

Overview: Especially designed to teach object oriented programming using the C++ language to those with no previous experience of programming. Throughout the text many straightforward examples are used to introduce and illustrate new techniques and language features. Each chapter starts with learning objectives and concludes with a number of exercises. Solutions for all exercises are given in an appendix.

Overview: First book on optical coatings on the market.Includes supplementary material: Interference coatings are an essential part of modern optics. This book is designed to give a concise but complete overview of the field, with contributions written by leading experts in the various areas. Topics include design, materials, film growth, deposition including large area, characterization and monitoring, and mechanical stress. The authors also describe applications in astronomy, microcomponents, DUV/VUV, EUV/X, ultrafast optics, displays, and ultrasensitive fluorescence. Furthermore, laser-resi

Overview: A mysterious disease, a public health failure, an investigation forty-five years in the making.Presents an engaging account of a physician-researcher‘s historic medical investigation and life‘s work.AOutbreak in the Village is a fascinating account of the personal and professional journey of Dr. Doug Jenkinson, physician and researcher. Over the course of four decades in practice, Jenkinson traces the reemergence of whooping cough in the developed world, using his practice in the idyllic English countryside as a clinical control group. Keeping meticulous notes and indulging an itch t

Overview: Discusses how to optimize inspection, maintenance, and cumulative damage models.Utilizes numerous real-world applications of the proposed models.Demonstrates the benefits of applying a stochastic appr.This book. .surveys recent applications of inspection models, maintenance models and cumulative damage models, as well as discusses the policies involved with these models. It explains how a stochastic approach can be applied to systems using real-world examples..The book begins by introducing and summarizing standard inspection models. It dedicates chapters to random inspection models

Overview: Up-to-date results.Fast-track conference proceedings.State-of-the-art researchThis book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Online Communities and Social Computing, OCSC 2011, held in Orlando, FL, USA in July 2011 in the framework of the 14th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, HCII 2011 with 10 other thematically similar conferences. The 77 revised papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from numerous submissions. The papers accepted for presentation thoroughly cover the thematic area of online communities and

Overview: 978-3-540-64400-2978-3-642-47916-8

Overview: des Umfanges vermieden werden. Im XIX. Kapitel werden meine früheren Mitarbeiter in ganz knapper Fassung manches von dem finden, um das wir uns in früheren Jahren gemeinsam bemüht haben. In der Darstellung ist wieder auf eine saubere Definition der benutzten Gr??en durch Gleichungen geachtet worden. Auch habe ich mich, von dem Brauch . vieler Lehrbücher abweichend, bemüht, gleiche Worte nicht durcheinander in ver- schiedenen Bedeutungen zu benutzen und alle Gleichungen dimensionsrichtig (und zwar als Gr??engleichungen) zu schreiben. - Schlie?lich danke ich denen, die mir bei der Arbe

Overview: Presents recent research results on delay models in biology.Examines mathematical models for dynamics including the distribution and consumption of food.Analyzes a spectrum of autonomous and non-auton.Environmental variation plays an important role in many biological and ecological dynamical systems. This monograph focuses on the study of oscillation and the stability of delay models occurring in biology. The book presents recent research results on the qualitative behavior of mathematical models under different physical and environmental conditions, covering dynamics including the d

Overview: Erstes deutschsprachiges Informatik-Buch zum Thema.Autor ist auch international anerkannter Topspezialist auf dem Gebiet.Gibt einen gelungenen überblick über grundlegende Konzepte, aktuelle Technologi.Ontologien haben durch die aktuellen Entwicklungen des Semantic Web gro?e Beachtung erfahren, da jetzt Technologien bereitgestellt werden, die eine Verwendung von Ontologien in Informationssystemen erm?glichen. Beginnend mit den grundlegenden Konzepten und Ideen von Ontologien, die der Philosophie und Linguistik entstammen, stellt das Buch den aktuellen Stand der Technik im Bereich unte

Overview: 978-3-540-56074-6978-3-642-77873-5Series ISSN 1431-472X Series E-ISSN 2628-8958

Overview: 978-3-528-06484-6978-3-322-84028-8